happy birthday tissue lady!

yippee!
happy 26th to myself!
i feel so loved this birthday :)

wheee~

yes!
too much hassle to lock, even i myself need to login everytime to access my links.
and since i'm no longer under the scrutiny of evil prying eyes... tada!

i have much to update but laziness overcomes everything. however, we were taught how to write summaries in primary school which is definitely still useful till date unlike silly equations. ;)

the girls gave me a great farewell with a very sweet powerpoint presentation done by justina filled with pictures and lovely wishes by the people. i also had handmade cereal cookies & necklace from Noormie, handmade postcard from Shu'en, farewell "booklet" which everyone took so much effort to write & beautify plus an agnes b bag charm which is so pretty :)

i miss them so!

went taipei for a 7-day holiday with mr porky and had great great fun! food was great & hotel location was soo ideal. bought back lots of cosmetics & skincare. didn't buy any clothes though. went to watch the recording of Guess*3 and it was definitely memorable.

two weeks after coming back from taipei, both of us decided to go KL for a 3-day short trip to utilise his free apartment stay. no words beside "shiok" can describe the apartment! transtar 1st class seat was fantastic too! lots of movies on demand (can choose, pause, forward, rewind), including english, chinese, japanese & korean movies (like around 16 eng & chinese movies each!), plus various concerts & games to watch & play.

been working at the new place for almost a month now. getting the hang of it :) i don't have to work on mondays now cos no classes are scheduled on mondays but once the new academic year starts in dec for us, i'll have to work mondays - saturdays and longer hours... :(

besides this drawback, i do appreciate having this job at my sis's place. candy, my bro-in-law's sis who has been there is very patient & helpful. (and she stays in yishun too so we can share cab to work and back from time to time :P) it has been rather stress-free till date and i have the flexibility of taking leaves or leaving earlier if i have things on, without needing to count the days of leave i have left. i also have more chances to see my nephews & niece whom i adore.

the centre will be closed from 15th - 27th nov so no work on those days :D
i think my sis is gonna book some rooms in sentosa for a few days during that period.
will drop by shenton way for lunch one of those days when i'm off!

birthday is coming in a few days time & i've already had some surprises and celebrations. thanks 38 gang for the angbao & great day singing + outbacking! thanks mr porky for the crabby dinner, gigantic popcorn jar, sweets, chocolates, yummy cake, macarons & the agnes b key ring!

wow.... that's a long summary.
well, till the next one!

freedom awaits

after 2 and a half long years of complaining, bitching and wanting to fly away, I've finally done the deed on 8th Sep.

was supposed to be already gone by 19th but i'm staying till 29th to do whatever i can to clean up the department's mountain of templates

i broke down when i handed the letter. haha. quite silly considering how much i've been wanting to leave ever since "ever since".

but there was just a gush of emotions at that moment.

how i'm really comfortable with the people here, with my seat, my computer and the executive toilet. (hah)
how this is my first job after graduation and i'm moving to a totally new industry facing totally new challenges.
how the bosses are sometimes tolerable.
how she is able to finally recognise my abilities and had been giving me more and more new responsibilities.
how i have to leave noormie and keng behind..
how i wont be able to have weekly lunches with xer xer anymore.
how i wont be having my gigantic inbox with emails all the way from 2006.
how i will have to ditch the irritating emails sent by them which i kept till today.

but ever since throwing the letter, there were many instances where i thank goodness for being able to fly away soon. like when she comes up with even more extensive and time-consuming meaningless templates, like when there are people here with asses on their heads instead of the brain, like when one single newspaper article can make the whole company change their business model instantly, like when i have to sit in for 6 meetings in a day, like when i have to answer stupid questions daily from assheads.

i'm thankful.

oh yeah. she asked the welfare team to do a farewell for me. how shocking is that?! but of course it won't be a dedicated session. it has to be combined with joyful events such as 3 other people's birthdays. money is only well-spent that way, ya'know?

anyway, i'm appreciative.

countdown. 7 days to 29th :)

oh yeah. i've not forgotten the dream of flipping the table and breaking the laptop. the slow and sucky lenovo seems to be perfect. :)

control freak

Wikipedia:

In Folk psychology-related slang, control freak is a derogatory term for a person who attempts to dictate how everything around them is done. It can also refer to someone with a limited number of things that they want done a specific way; professor of clinical psychology Les Parrott wrote that "Control Freaks are people who care more than you do about something and won't stop at being pushy to get their way.

In some cases, the control freak sees their constant intervention as beneficial and even necessary; this can be caused by feelings of superiority, believing that others are incapable of handling matters properly, or the fear that things will go wrong if they don't attend to every detail. In other cases, they may simply enjoy the feeling of power it gives them so much that they automatically try to gain control of everything around them.

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Such an apt term.

I'm wondering how it is to be living a life of a control freak. so unhappy, so hated by everyone, so unloved, so stressed. this control freak i know has been sending numerous emails to everyone in the middle of the night at 4am. what is she doing? does she know it is sleeping time? a time where she can finally relax herself and give everyone else a break?

Every single thing is under her control. marketing, production, database, even nitty gritty stuffs like stationaries, telephone lines, claims, telemarketing, temp staff etc etc etc etc etc. A one-woman-show. Where everybody else is falling under her control, as puppets. People who are not allowed to have their own ideas. Yes ideas are encouraged but when each ideas are faced with 1000 stupid questions by the control freak, no one bothers to try anymore.

It's so hard to live her life. Such pathetic life..

prank call

received a call from a withheld number just now

i answered:

me: "hello"

kid: "hello"

me: "hello"

kid: *hastily* "anyone f**king?" *hangs up*

hahahaha~
what's wrong with the world!?